Re: [[PATCH v3] 1/2] [submodule] handle multibyte characters in name

Fredrik Gustafsson [off-list ref] writes:

... The
correct approach to solve the problem for all pathnames may be to use
"ls-files -z" and tell the Perl script that reads its output to read NUL
separated records by using $/ = "\0".

I've tentatively queued the attached without 2/2; the scriptlet is
small enough not to matter in an eventual rewrite, so it shouldn't
make a difference either way.

-- >8 --
From: Fredrik Gustafsson <redacted>
Subject: [PATCH] handle multibyte characters in name

Many "git submodule" operations do not work on a submodule at a path whose
name is not in ASCII.

This is because "git ls-files" is used to find which paths are bound to
submodules to the current working tree, and the output is C-quoted by default
for non ASCII pathnames.

Tell "git ls-files" to not C-quote its output, which is easier than unwrapping
C-quote ourselves.

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Gustafsson <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
---
 git-submodule.sh           |  3 ++-
 t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 79bfaac..48bdf84 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh

@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ resolve_relative_url ()
 module_list()
 {
 	(
-		git ls-files --error-unmatch --stage -- "$@" ||
+		git ls-files -z --error-unmatch --stage -- "$@" ||
 		echo "unmatched pathspec exists"
 	) |
 	perl -e '

@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ module_list()
 	my ($null_sha1) = ("0" x 40);
 	my @out = ();
 	my $unmatched = 0;
+	$/ = "\0";
 	while (<STDIN>) {
 		if (/^unmatched pathspec/) {
 			$unmatched = 1;

diff --git a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
index ff26535..d5743ee 100755
--- a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh

@@ -868,4 +868,16 @@ test_expect_success 'submodule deinit fails when submodule has a .git directory
 	test -n "$(git config --get-regexp "submodule\.example\.")"
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'submodule with strange name works "å äö"' '
+	mkdir "å äö" &&
+	(
+		cd "å äö" &&
+		git init &&
+		touch sub
+		git add sub
+		git commit -m "init sub"
+	)
+	git submodule add "/å äö" &&
+	test -n "$(git submodule | grep "å äö")"
+'
 test_done

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